Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Certain motivating beliefs can actually lead to mental breakdown because of their own implications as habits of mind.

Based on irrational beliefs and emotional feelings, one can undermine the principles which must be observed to some extent for anyone to be able to be happy.

The spoiled, angry child rebels against the most basic life responsibilities and yet demands that a government meet their needs for life.

Human life requires free choice, voluntary cooperation, adjustment to individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal, preferences, and work ethic. No one wants the rewards of life to be leveled. No human being wants a life of rules that contradict personal incentive and cause resentment, or reduces one to a dependent of the government or some organization or group.

This kind of view preys on weak individuals who dislike themselves, by:

creating and reinforcing self-perceptions of victimization;

satisfying any claim to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;

encouraging and promoting feelings of envy;

Getting individuals to subordinating themselves to the will of the government or some organization or group to satisfy those feelings of victimization, entitlement, and envy.

Distorted intellectual development produces irrational beliefs. When you can get someone to whine about victims, rage against perceived villains, and try to run the lives of other people who are already competent to run their own lives, the breakdown is progressing.